At New England Book Auctions on Tuesday, January 14, Early Printing, Americana, Architecture, etc., in 202 lots. Some expected highlights include a second issue copy of the 1854 Address to the Legislature of New-York, Adopted by the State Woman's Rights Convention ($600–900); a first edition of…

Vladimir Nabokov's controversial 1955 novel Lolita, inscribed to William James, Jr. and his wife Alice comes up at Christie's' latest  Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana this week with a particularly unusual inscription.

Memorabilia from the much-loved British comedian Eric Morecambe’s career exceeded expectations at this weekend's dedicated Hansons auction at the Burton Albion Pirelli Stadium.

A copy of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer produced by the esteemed Kelmscott Press in 1896 has been sold by RR Auction for $68,750.

Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire will kick off the celebrations for Austen’s 250th birthday year with the opening of a new exhibition opening January 22 and running through 2025.

Rare Book School at the University of Virginia's 2025 schedule includes more than 40 classes, featuring online courses and in-person possibilities plus two new partner institutions, the University of Michigan and Oxford University's Bodleian Library which marks RBS's first international…

The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art (SVMA) is to hold an exhibition of 40 contemporary handcrafted artists' books inspired by Japanese aesthetics with the majority of pieces coming from Japan.

FrielDays, the five-year project celebrating one of Ireland’s greatest writers, Brian Friel (1929-2015), is to feature an annual strand of special birthday events inspired by the playwright.Each year, the birthday events will happen around Friel’s two birth dates – January 9 and 10 – to reflect the…

The Sandars Lectures 2024 given by Timothy Young, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts for the Yale Center for British Art, on 'Resistance to Bibliography' are now available online. 

The Grolier Club will explore the singular wit of American literary legend Mark Twain in the new exhibition A First-Class Fool: Mark Twain and Humor. On view from January 15 through April 5, 2025, the exhibition examines the work of Samuel Langhorne Clemens who crafted the “Mark Twain”…